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G. MILLS. DEVICE FOR ATTAGHING CARD CLOTHING T0 FLATS. No. 581,749. Patented May 4, 1897.

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CHARLES HILLS, OF NEW'UN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PETTEE MACHINE W'ORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR ATTACl-HNG CARD -CLOTHING TO FLATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,749, dated May 4, 1897.

Application filed February 4, 1896. Se Nor 580,345. (No model.)

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Be it known that 1, CHARLES MILLS, a suhject of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, residingin Newton, in the county of Middlesex 5 and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Fastening Gard-Clothing to the Flats of Revolving-Flat Oarding-Engines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip- 1 0 tion, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The subject-matter of my present invention comprises the employment of clips attached to the edges of card-clothin g and the flats to which the clothing is secured as a means for stretching the card-clothing during the bringing together of the clothing and its clips and the flat.

It also relates to means whereby this is accomplished and the clothing permanently secured to the flat by the folding of the edges of the clips upon the under surface of the flat.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a View in ver- 2 5 tical section of card-clothin g having attached to its edges clips, sections of which extend from the clothing and are parallel with each other but are separated from each other by a space slightly less than the width of the flat to which the clothing is to be secured. Fig. 2 is a view representing a holder for holding the card-clothing with its attached clips, which is slightly wider than the clothing and clips, and into which the flat is 3 5 adapted to be moved to stretch the cloth by engagement with the clips, and in which it is also adapted to be held during the turning or folding of the edges of the clips upon its under surface. Fig. 3 is a view of the parts represented in Fig. 2 when the fiat has been moved into the holder to stretch the clothing and preparatory to the turning of the edges of the clips upon its under surface. Fig. 4 is a view of the same parts, the devices for turning the edges of the clips having been somewhat advanced to turn them slightlyinwardly. Fig. 5 is a view of the same parts, showing the edges of the clips as closed upon the under surface of the iiat. Fig. 6 is a view of the flat, clothing and attaching clips.

The holder A has the beds a a, separated from each other by a recess d of a width and depth sufficient to receive the wired section of the clothing. From the outer edges of each bed rises a wall a which is of a height equal to the thickness of the flat at itscdge and the thickness of the clothing. These walls a are separated from each other by a space equal to the width of the flat and the thickness of the clips B.

The clips B are secured to the edges of the clothing in advance and as represented in Fig. 1, and preferably by means described in the joint application of Robert W. Hunton and myself, filed August 1, 1894, Serial No. 519,149, and my application of even date herewith, Serial No. 580,344; and as they are so attached as to be separated from each other a distance slightly less than the width of the flat it follows that when the clothing and clips are inserted into the holder they do not quite fill the same-that is, the clothing and clips are slightly narrower than the space between the walls a (See Fig. 5.) The clips are, however, separated in the holder to stretch the clothing by means of the fiat O, which has the flat under surface 0.

The space between the two walls d is forced downward between the clips by a pressurehead D,which is shaped, preferably, as rep- 8o resented in Figs. 2 to 5, inclusive, having the sections d, which bear upon the under surface of the flat 011 each side of its ribs d, which extends into the recess of the pressurehead. Being pressed downward the fiat sepa- 8 5 rates the clips in the holder and causes them to stretch the clothing, so that when the flat is seated thereon, as represented in Fig. 3, the clothing has been applied to the sides of the flat and the edges l) of the clips are above 0 the under surface of the flat, and in a position to be readily turned inward upon the under surface of the flat by turning tools or slides E or by any other desired means, and when folded upon the under surface of the flat occupy the position in relation thereto represented in Figs. 5 and 6.

I prefer that the slides or other bending or folding device or tool have a curved end 6,

extending into the fiat or straight surface 6 I00 represented in the figures.

It will be seen by providing the clothing with the clips arranged as specified and by applying the flat thereto as described that the clothing is stretched, the fiat brought into proper relation With the clothing and in such relation to the clips that the clothing may be immediately secured to the fiat at the end of the stretching movement.

The subject-matter of this invention was originally described in the said joint application of Robert W. Hunton and myself, filed August 1, 1894, Serial No. 519,149.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States-v- 1. In a device for stretching card-clothing and attaching it to flats, the combination of a holder for holding and rigidly supporting the e d h ns and c ip previously attache t er t an m ans f pres i g a fl b ween the hps pon the card-clothing Whi e so supp d,wherehy the c oth ng s stret hed ing th m emen of he fla t a the clothing. v

2- I a d iee o he characte spec fi d, the combination of a holder for supporting the cardtclothi g and its a tached ips upon the fac the eo n means r p ss ng he fl t be ween t e lips a bringing heir edge above the under surface thereof, from which they may be turned upon the under surface f of the flat to secure the clothing thereto.

3- The mbinatio of the h de having be s for r gi ly suppo ting th f c of,

the clothing, and the recess a and walls a the walls being Separated from each other by a space slightly greater than the Width of the clothing and its attached clips, with the fiat presser D, whereby a flat of a width slightly greater than the normal distance between the inner opposed surfaces of the upwardly-projecting clips, may be forced between said surfaces and stretch the clothing, as and for the purposes set forth.

4. Means for stretching and attaching the card-clothin g to the face of a flat, said means consistingof clip-holders against which the faces of the clips rest and upon which they may spread in a direction away from each other, in combination with mechanism for forcing a flat slightly wider than the said clips are apart, to a seat between said clips an agai st the inne sur ac f t e c i g, ereby the cl h ng is stre c d hy eparati n of he l ps, a l t h,

5,- In a e c o th he -a er pec e the combination of ahe der fo p tin the ca d-cl hing" and i s att eh d clip upon th feee t e e f, mea s for press n th f etw en t e c ips an bringing their edges above the unde u face thereef, an mean f urning he aid edge ever upon th under surface of the flat, whereby the clothing is secured thereto CHARLES MILLS.

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